Without a fixed location in various places within Europe - including Germany, England, Ireland, Italy; within Germany in Düsseldorf, Kassel (documenta 1977 and 1982), Achberg on Lake Constance, Gelsenkirchen, among others.
Region:
Region:
Western Europe
Country:
Land:
Germany
Location:
Location:
Without a fixed location
Target Group:
Zielgruppe:
Everyone
Description
Description
The »Free International University for Interdisciplinary Research« (FIU) was a concept presented by Joseph Beuys in 1972 under the title »Freie Schule der Kreativität, Kommunikation und interdisziplinäres Gespräch« (Free School of Creativity, Communication and Interdisciplinary Conversation) and subsequently an association for the foundation of an alternative form of school that wanted to provide free access to education and interdisciplinary exchange. Numerous people, including Caroline Tisdall and Johannes Stüttgen, were involved. The FIU created space for different people to meet at different places within Europe. Beuys saw the opportunities to learn from and with each other as the actual educational process that would lead to the foundations of the form of society Beuys was striving for. Beuys saw the FIU as a free space without a fixed location and a flexible, self-organising network, at the centre of which he understood creativity as a »Freiheitswissenschaft« (science of freedom).
Goals
Goals
Creation of an alternative form of learning and teaching through freely accessible information, space for the development of the personality as well as interdisciplinary exchange as the basis for a transformation and reorganization of society, centered on equal political participation, freedom and tolerance.
Initiators
Initiator*innen
Joseph Beuys, Heinrich Böll, Klaus Staeck, Georg Meistermann, Willi Bongard
Responsible
Responsible
Association »Free International University for Interdisciplinary Research« (FIU), founded by Joseph Beuys, supervised in cooperation with many people and at various branches (network)
Further information
Further Information
__Beuys, Joseph: Sprechen über Deutschland. Rede vom 20. November 1985 in den Münchener Kammerspielen. Die Vortragsreihe: Band 3, FIU-Verlag, Wangen 2002
__Beuys, Joseph/Gerresheim, Hinrich: Interview. Hinrich Gerresheim mit Joseph Beuys am 5. November 1976 in Frankfurt anlässlich der Ausstellung »mit – neben – gegen«. In: Rappmann, Rainer (Hg.): Joseph, was ist eine freie Akademie? Beuys:. FIU–Verlag, Achberg 2014
__Dutschke, Rudi/Rabehl, Bernd/Sender, Christian: Ein Gespräch über die Zukunft mit Rudi Dutschke, Bernd Rabehl und Christian Sender. In: Kursbuch 14 (1968), 146–174. (Dutschke /Rabehl/Sender 1968)
__FIU-Kassel (Hg.): Die unsichtbare Skulptur. Zum erweiterten Kunstbegriff von Joseph Beuys. Stuttgart 1989
__Heubach, Friedrich W.: »Joseph Beuys zur idealen Akademie«. In: Heubach, Friedrich W. (Hg.): Interfunktionen, Heft 2, 1969
Images
Bilder
»Der erweiterte Kunstbegriff als wesensgemäßer Kapitalbegriff« (The expanded concept of art as a concept of capital in keeping with its essence), title page of the Free International University's programme of events for documenta 7. Photo: Press Office of Documenta GmbH Klaus Becker / Photo Dietmar Walberg – Press folder of the Documenta GmbH June 1982, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: Wikipedia.
